Reportedly, not long after this episode first aired, Ye was dining at The Cheesecake Factory and the manager served him a plate of fishsticks as a joke.
After watching the episode, West wrote on his blog, "South Park murdered me last night and it's pretty damn funny. It hurts my feelings but what can you expect from South Park!". He thanked the South Park writers in his blog entry and acknowledged he has a problem with his ego, but said he was trying to change. Parker and Stone said they were extremely surprised by West's reaction, and felt Carlos Mencia was treated far more harshly in the episode than West. Mencia however, was extremely delighted to have been featured in the episode, and called it "hysterical."
Trey Parker had to deliberately sing the song "Gay Fish" off-key in order for the Auto-Tune effect to work.
The fishsticks joke goes as follows: "Hey (person) do you like fishsticks" "Do you like putting fishsticks in your mouth" "What are you a gay fish"